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LETTER FROM CHILD EVACUEE: WORLD WAR II
LETTER FROM CHILD EVACUEE: WORLD WAR II
Letter from wartime Lambeth evacuee Alice McDonald to her parents in London. She was initially evacutated to Littlehampton in Sussex before being billetted with Mrs K Grant of Gravits Lane, Bognor Regis. This letter mentions an air raid warning in Bognor when 'Auntie' [Mrs Grant] put her under the table - 'its fine fun' noted Alice. In 2005 she recalled an air raid: "Sometimes she [Mrs Grant] didn't want to go to the air raid shelter - there was a little park, a green with the air raid shelters, and we were allocated the middle one. And one night she said she didn't feel well enough, so we went under the stairs; and there was a direct hit on the middle shelter! And the next day she wrote to my mum and said come and bring Alice home; that was 1940."Digital image by kind permission of Alice McDonald. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.
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| Collection: | Home Front Project 2005 |
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| Ref: | 06711 |
| Identifier: | SPd 4055/3 |
| Date: | c.1940 |
#1926 - 1950 #Home Front Project 2005 #People #WAR AND ARMED FORCES
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